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Professor Piotr Trojański is an academic lecturer and academic advisor at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH). He teaches at the Department of Historical Education, at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. His research interests focus mainly on the socio-economic history of Polish Jews; teaching about the Holocaust in Poland and around the world; the evolution of Auschwitz and the Holocaust remembrance, didactics of history, in particular active methods of teaching and multi-media education, as well as multicultural education. He is an academic advisor at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH) and the head of the former edition of a post-graduate program “Totalitarianism – Nazism – Holocaust”. He co-developed the first ever program of education about the Holocaust in Poland and co-authored the first handbook for the program. He is also the author and co-author of numerous publications concerning education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, and perceptions of the Holocaust by Polish secondary school and university students.